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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Dec 1" 1865.

Col. O. Brown
Ass't Commissioner &c
Richmond Va.

Colonel;

Enclosed please find copy of Par. 16. S.O. 623 C.S. A.G.O. just issued, directing thirty Officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps to report to you.

On their reporting to you for duty, you will examine them, before assigning them to Stations, as to their fitness to perform the duties required of them. Such as are not fit representatives of the Bureau from whatever cause, will be ordered to report in person to Maj. Gen'l. Howard.

These officers are intended to relieve those now on duty with you, whose regiments are about being mustered out. 

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